Achillis Bocchii Bonon. Symbolicarum quaestionum, de vniuerso genere, quas serio ludebat, libri quinque

by: Bocchi, Achille, 1488-1562; Società Tipografica bolognese, publisher. pbl; Bonasone, Giulio, ca. 1498-ca. 1580, illustrator. ill; Fontana, Prospero, 1512-1597, illustrator. ill; Rocca, Michele, ca. 1670-ca. 1751, illustrator. ill

Publication date: 1574

Topics: Symbolism in art, Emblems, Latin, Art, Renaissance

Publisher: Bononiae : Apud Societatem Typographiæ Bononiensis

Collection: emblem; americana

Digitizing sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Contributor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Language: Latin

151 engraved emblems; copperplates ascribed to Giulio Bonasone, after designs by Prospero Fontana and Parmigianino

In the Emblems copy, emblems 28, 34, 36, 50, 103, 111, 113 and 145 corrected by pasteovers; emblem 112 mounted on blank page (cf. McGeary & Nash); the Baldwin copy is correct in these places, without pasteovers

Includes index

Binding (Emblems copy): Full green morocco, stamped in gilt, signed 'Lortic'; marbled endpapers

Binding (Baldwin copy): Half leather on paper boards

McGeary & Nash. Emblem books at the University of Illinois

Landwehr, J. Romanic Emblem Books

Adams

Mortimer, R. Italian 16th Cent.

Notes

pgs 9 and 10 repeatedly numbered.

Addeddate: 2009-12-18 16:01:57

Associated-names: Società Tipografica bolognese, publisher; Bonasone, Giulio, ca. 1498-ca. 1580, illustrator; Fontana, Prospero, 1512-1597, illustrator; Rocca, Michele, ca. 1670-ca. 1751, illustrator